Scientific Babel
How Science Was Done Before and After Global English
- Contents
- Review Quotes
- Awards
Introduction: Talking Science
Chapter 1: The Perfect Past That Almost Was
Chapter 2: The Table and the Word
Chapter 3: Hydrogen Oxygenovich
Chapter 4: Speaking Utopian
Chapter 5: The Wizards of Ido
Chapter 6: The Linguistic Shadow of the Great War
Chapter 7: Unspeakable
Chapter 8: The Dostoevsky Machine
Chapter 9: All the Russian That’s Fit to Print
Chapter 10: The Fe Curtain
Chapter 11: Anglophonia
Conclusion: Babel Beyond
Acknowledgments
List of Archives
Notes
Index
“Gordin’s book is an absolute must for anyone interested in the languages of science, because it pictures and explains their development with unrivalled conclusiveness and precision.”
History of Science Society: Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize
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